Greenock, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76689. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Bend quadrangle.

Greenock within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
1931 USGS Whitney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Smiths Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Greenock between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,714 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BCSO
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	145-15
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HCR 2200
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	175 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	364 HCR 2200
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL GHOLSON
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	958 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CEDAR RIDGE FIRE
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	160-15
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smiths Bend	4.9 miles	16
Cayote	5.9 miles	15
Laguna Park	6.7 miles	15
Rock Springs	6.7 miles	16
Womack	9.4 miles	15
Valley Mills	10.0 miles	16
Lakewood Harbor	10.3 miles	16
Pendell	11.0 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Greenock	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q114414371	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379858. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.